The Barbados Bridge League is now the proud owner of a DUPLIMATE Mk 4.3 machine which it intends to use for the automatic duplication of computer produced hands. As a necessary adjunct to this are two pieces of software which generate the hands:-  WinDup, which will produce random distributions and generate statistics to drmonstrate how close the output matches the expected frequencies of the various possible distributions, and Dealmaster Pro, which has the added facility of permitting user specification of the type of distribution desired. This latter feature is expected to be very valuable as a teaching support for the classes organised by the league.

It is further intended that the publication of the results of the various games on the League's web page will now be accompanied by a copy of the relevant hand records, and it is hoped that this will allow for a commentary on the interesting hands as shown by the results obtained at the tables. All persons interested in contribution to this commentary - a sharing of the work load is desirable - should contact the President.

 The introduction of the dealing machine and the use of computer generated deals has prompted questions about the "randomness"" of the deals. The information given below is produced as a compilation of the statistics of all the deals generated by WinDup so far.

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 276 deals     N HPC E HPC S HPC W HPC  |----Voids----|  |--Singletons-|  |-- >=7suit --|  |----Balanced-----|
Average/Totals 10.31 10.07  9.76  9.86   17  12  23  12   92  92  71  83    8  13   8  15   151  148  163  172
Expected       10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00   15  15  15  15   85  85  85  85   12  12  12  12   177  177  177  177
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N HPC E HPC S HPC W HPC  |---Voids---|  |--Singletons---|  |- >=7suit -|  |---Balanced----|
10.03  8.91 10.66 10.41    1  4  3  0      6   8   5  10     0  2  0  1     24  18  21  22
 9.78 10.41 10.59  9.22    2  0  4  1     14  13   9   9     0  0  1  1     16  13  18  21
10.84  9.84  9.75  9.56    4  0  3  0     12  11   8  15     0  4  1  1     14  15  17  15
 9.75  9.81  8.97 11.47    3  1  5  4     11   8   6  11     1  0  1  4     17  19  20  18
 9.66  9.91 10.06 10.38    0  2  1  0     12  14  11   6     2  1  1  3     18  15  17  21
10.81 10.47  8.59 10.13    3  2  2  4     13  10   6   5     1  2  1  1     14  19  22  23
10.72 11.34  9.34  8.59    1  1  4  1      9   7   8  14     1  0  1  1     19  22  18  17
11.55  9.90  9.30  9.25    1  0  0  0      6   9   7   7     1  1  1  0      9  11  11  12
10.13  9.94 10.44  9.50    2  2  1  2      9  12  11   6     2  3  1  3     20  16  19  23
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High card and distribution point statistics for DLM-files.
Used abbreviations:
H: means Honor, D: Distribution, sum is sum, x is maximum and n is minimum; e.g.
WsumH means sum of honor points in Wests's hand in given deal set.
NxH means maximum honor points in North's hand and SnD means minimum distribution points in South's hand.
Milton Work honor point count system is used (A=4, K=3, Q=2 J=1).
Distribution points is calculated using void=3, singleton=2, doubleton=1
No adjustements for honors in short suits are made.
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High Card Points                      Deals   NsumH EsumH SsumH WsumH    NnH NxH   EnH ExH   SnH SxH   WnH WxH
BBL, Dec 01#1                           32      321       285      341        333         1     19       4    18      3     20       1      21
Cave Hill, Nov 28#1                    32      313       333      339        295         2      20      3    17      3    19        3      18
demo#1                                       32      347       315      312       306         3      20      2    20      1     17       3      18
Morning Club, Nov 23#1             32      312       314       287       367         2      18     1     18      1     19       4      17
Morning Club, Nov 25#1             32      309       317      322        332         3     18      1     20      5     21       3      20
Morning Club, Nov 30#1             32      346       335      275        324        3       20     2     20     2      20        2     21
test#1                                        32      343       363      299         275        5      18      4      20    2     18        2      18
test 2#1                                     20      231      198       186        185        4       20      5     17     0     19        0     19
test 3#1                                    32      324       318       334       304          2      18      4      19    4      17       3     17
Total for set of files                 276     2846   2778     2695      2721        1       20     1      20     0      21       0      21

Distribution points                   Deals   NsumD EsumD SsumD WsumD    NnD NxD   EnD ExD   SnD SnD   WnD WxD
BBL, Dec 01#1                           32       47        48         53         51           0      3        0    4        0     4            0   3
Cave Hill, Nov 28#1                     32       57        50        50         50           0       4       1     4        0     3           0   4
demo#1                                      32       65         58        59          48           0      4        0    4        0      4          0   3
Morning Club, Nov 23#1             32       46        56        58          55           0       4        0    4        0     4           0   5
Morning Club, Nov 25#1             32       56        42        50          57           0       3        0    3        0      4          0   5
Morning Club, Nov 30#1             32       48        58        51          55           0       4        0    4        0      4          0   3
test#1                                        32       46         56        52          55            0      3        0    3        0      4          0   4
test 2#1                                     20       36        37         29          36           1       4        0   3         0      3          0   4
test 3#1                                    32       55        49          52          57           0        5       0   4         0      3          0   5
Total for set of files                 276     456      465       454        464          0         5      0    4         0      4          0   5
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 It is the dream of every bridge player to compete for his country at the WBF Championships. For 12 Barbadians that dream came true during the period August 28 - September 12 in Sao Paulo, Brasil. During the first week six ladies competed for the Venice Cup, and 6 Seniors played for the DÖrsi Seniors Bowl. Both teams were playing in fields that included professionals as well as current and former world champions. The seniors won 7 of their 21 matches against, among others, Italy, Poland (eventual second place winners), Pakistan and Brasil. The ladies won 3 matches of their 21.

In the second week the teams played in a World Transnational Open Teams Competition and the ladies made a great start but faded as the swiss movement pitted them against other early winners.. This competition was of a very high level as it contained a number of very strong teams which had been eliminated from the three main competitions at the end of the round robin

The pair of Watkins and Blackman recorded positive Butlers scores at the end of the round robins of both the DÖrsi Bowl and the WTOT. Cummins and Thompson had similarly positive results for the WTOT. Both can be proud of that Butler comparison with the current crop of the world's best.